title: Concomitant gastric carcinoid and gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a case report.
abstract: A gastric carcinoid tumor concomitant with gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is rarely encountered in clinical practice. We report a 65-year-old female who had a 0.8 cm gastric carcinoid tumor on the posterior wall of the upper gastric corpus detected during an esophagogastroduodenoscopy at a routine physical examination, and a concomitant 1.1 cm GIST on the anterior wall of the upper gastric corpus incidentally found during surgery of the gastric carcinoid tumor. Normal serum gastrin level and histological findings suggested that she had a type III gastric carcinoid tumor and a GIST which were categorized a very low risk of malignancy, based on their small size and lack of mitosis. Both tumors were treated successfully by surgical excision. The patient had an uneventful recovery. Neither recurrence nor metastasis was found after a 28-mo follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomic Pathology, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Chiayi 622, Taiwan, China.
authors.forename: Ying-Lung
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Chang-Kou
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Jui-Kun
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Chiang
authors.forename: An-Liang
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Chou
authors.forename: Chih-Wei
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Chih-En
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Tseng
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D046152:Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome